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People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook. A Swedish company has been fined 25,000 kronor ($3,000) after a malfunctioning robot attacked and almost killed one of its workers at a factory north of Stockholm.Thanks to satellite positioning systems, robots can now be programmed to hit targets some distance away with just a few metres (yards) short of pinpoint accuracy. Certain countries, including France, have warned against the use of cell phones especially by minors due to health risk uncertainties...and inner ear droids electrocuting your synapses! The Pentagon is looking for contractors to provide a "Multi-Robot Pursuit System" that will let packs of robots "search for and detect a non-cooperative human". In 2007, the Japanese fired a giant space rocket using ther Standard Missile 3 (SM-3) off the coast of Kauai. Researchers at the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, part of the national aerospace agency in Wessling, south-east Germany, programmed a mechanical arm holding a variety of instruments to strike a series of substances that mimicked human tissue.